Psalms 82

1 A psalm of Asaph. God stands in the divine assembly; in the midst of the gods he renders judgment.

Of Asaph. God stood in the synagoge of goddis; forsothe he demeth goddis in the myddil.

2 How long will you judge unjustly and show favoritism to the wicked? (Selah)

Hou longe demen ye wickidnesse; and taken the faces of synneris?

3 Defend the poor and fatherless; maintain the rights of the afflicted and destitute.

Deme ye to the nedi man, and to the modirles child; iustifie ye the meke man and pore.

4 Rescue the poor and needy; take them out of the hand of the wicked.

Raueische ye out a pore man; and delyuere ye the nedi man fro the hond of the synner.

5 They neither know nor understand; they wander around in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth crumble.

Thei knewen not, nether vndirstoden, thei goen in derknessis; alle the foundementis of erthe schulen be moued.

6 I said, “You are gods, and all of you sons of the Most High.

I seide, Ye ben goddis; and alle ye ben the sones of hiy God.

7 Nevertheless you will die like men and fall like one of the princes.”

But ye schulen die as men; and ye schulen falle doun as oon of the princis.

8 Arise, God, judge the earth, for you have an inheritance in all the nations.

Ryse, thou God, deme thou the erthe; for thou schalt haue eritage in alle folkis.